Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-03-10

Sc BARNES,
Real Estate, Loan and Insurance Agents,
MExICo, MO.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
County School Commissioner.
WE are authorized TO announce
w PROF. II. A. GASS
ty Commissioner OF Public schools subject TO
the action of the Democratic party.
Go to C. Wade's for furniture and
collins. Opposite Ringo House.
The court house yard is being
cleaned.
The protractcd meetings are we'll
attended.
The old reliable corner-Harper,
Turner & Co.
A shooting gallery is being opened
at Collins old stand.
The funeral of Henry Ward Beecher
takes place Thursday.
President Cleveland will be fifty
years old on the 18th inst.
II. Easter has put in a coffee roas-
ter and rOasts his own coffee.
Hannibal, Mo, claims to have dis
covred a vein of natural gas.
urfriend, Clay Judy. has sold his
drug store and gone to farming.
The c. & A. will put on Il new
fast train from Chicago to Kansas
City.
s. $500 stock of boots and shoes to
be closed out at one at prices that
will astonish you. FAMOUS
About fifteen citizens Of the eastern
portion Of This county went to Wich-
ita, Kansas this week to prospect.
James +. Goodman of Randolph
county, Mo, beat his wife to death
and then committed suicide.
Large stock of boots and shoes at
nearly cost, to close out. They must
go. FAMOUS"
There will be a rainbow party at
the NJ. f. Church, South, by the E.
X. NJ. society on Thursday, the 18th
inst.
The st. Louis morning papers ar
rive in Mexico at 12:47, now thirty
nine minutes earlier than they used
to come.
One man was killed and ten in
jured in Saturday nights wreck on
the Iron Mountain railroad, near De
Soto, Mo.
Messrs Smith & Wallace have sold
out to S. l. Maggart, of Sullivan
county. Smith and Wallace will not
leave Mexico.
Eighteen passenger trains arrive
and depart at the Mexico Union De-
pot every day except Sunday, while
on that day there are fourteen.
In the LEDGER this week is found
the ad. of j. w. Patton, who has q
full and complete line of harness and
saddles, &C. Call and see him before
you buy.
Rev. Vardeman, of Kentucky
preached at the Missionary Baptist
church last night, and will likely con
tinue through the week. He is wei
liked by the. congregation.
If the Eastern mail for Mexico wal
sent out on the Missouri Pacific, ant
up to Mexico on the Branch, it would
reach here at Ii 80, two hours earle
than under the present system.
The Wabash, st. Louis & Pacifi'
R'y is shortly to be re-christened tn
Wabash, st. Louis and Western R'y
1t is expected that the reorganization
will be perfected within a few weeks
There is every indication that
G. & A. extension will be built from
Jefferson City, South. While thi
would materially help Jefferson,
would give Mexico a genuine boom
The second quarterly meeting TO
Wellsviile circuit will he held i
Martinsburg March, 18th.
j. \. M~UMPowER, P +.
NJ. l.. GRAY. Z. G.
w. ?. Wade and Charlie Day
while blowing sod on the Uzzle farm
nea Rush Hill, yesterday, turned u
a nest containing about a millio
snakes, more or less. They kille
them all.
Bob Stone, of near Worceste
sold one of the finest mules evs
brought to Mexico to Michael Rol
inson, on Tuesday, for 1925. He
4 years old, 1G IL hands high an
weighs 1,470 pounds.
The new Washing machine con
pany has just received a number {
castings, and are turning out ms
chimes as fast as possible. They wi
build their new factory, near Pc
locks mill, about May 1st.
Bob Dunsmore, G. & A. passengt
conductor, formerly of this city, VIII,
it will be remembered, lost the US
of a hand in a railroad accident, h.
had an operation performed on tt